In the Country of Last Things -- Paul Auster

<b>From the author of the forthcoming <i>4 3 2 1: A Novel</i> - a spare, powerful, intensely visionary novel about the bare-bones conditions of survival</b> <p/>In a distant and unsettling future, Anna Blume is on a mission in an unnamed city of chaos and disaster. Its destitute inhabitants scavenge garbage for food and shelter, no industry exists, and an elusive government provides nothing but corruption. Anna wades through the filth to find her long-lost brother, a one-time journalist who may or may not be alive.<p><i>New York </i>Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (<i>The New York Trilogy)</i> shows us a disturbing Hobbesian society in this dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Paul Auster<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 05/02/1988<br><b>Pages:</b> 188<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.35lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.80d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780140097054<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>New York Review of Books</i> 12/04/2008 pg. 36<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Paul Auster </b>is the bestselling author of <i>4 3 2 1</i>, <i>Sunset Park</i>, <i>The Book of Illusions</i>, <i>Moon Palace</i>, and <i>The New York Trilogy</i>, among many other works. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honors include the Prix M馘icis 騁ranger for <i>Leviathan</i>, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of <i>Smoke</i>, t